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Spectrometer

Spectrometer

This is a research quality spectrometer with horizontal circle 25.5 cm diameter, divided to 1/12 degrees, and read by microscopes and verniers. The “SOCIETE GENEVOISE / Pour la Construction ‘D’Instruments de Physique / GENEVE” inscription refers to a firm that, since its founding in 1862, has supplied sophisticated apparatus to laboratories around the world.

This instrument was purchased for the Mary Frances Searles science building at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me. This imposing building, dedicated in 1894, symbolized the importance of the natural sciences within an American liberal education.